You may be better off with a custom one though. It will require some angle iron or square tubing, a little plate steel, some casters, and a welder. If you don’t have a welder, you could drop it off and have it welded for pretty cheap since it’s only a few welds. You could get large casters to help roll across uneven, bumpy floors too. Just make sure you get some that lock and possibly incorporate them into a design that lifts the wheels when stationary (or get casters that raise up). You could come out significantly cheaper or more than a universal depending on the quality of materials you use, but it’ll probably exceed the strength of a universal base.

Milo – those links are great, especialy Greg Wurst’s link. I have said it before – we lumberjocks are to woodworking what HAM operators were to the electronic industry. We are the ideas driving the industry… the inventors in the field. Greg’s idea is a good example – a simple improvement to the expensive mobile solutions out there.

Not that my idea can help you because of the weight of your tools, but I’m proud of a small shop solution I developed featured in post # 39419 in this ame forum. We LJ’s may not be the company engineers but I’m sure we are being watched by the big game players and we are being collectively noticed as an important driving force.

I have a bunch of machines on mobile bases, but I also havea “mini” pallet jack which I use to move my table saw, whichhas slots in the base for it, and for moving my shaper, whichis on a 4” tall base made for this purpose in about half anhour out of some 2×4 pine and a piece of plywood.

I also move other stuff on the pallet jack from time to timeand the thing makes such work deliriously fun.

I have a 550 pound plainer, and a 350 pound joiner. The plainer is on a home build welded base with HF locking casters. The joiner is on a commercial base, but I have a smooth floor in the shop. The 750 pound table saw sits where it is, but my outfeed table/assembly table is on 6 HF locking casters so I can move it around a bit. If you look in my projects there is a picture of the outfeed table.

Once the machines get over 350 lbs or so (Unisaw weight)they start to have serious mass and even with mobile basesthey take some muscle to push around. I have a couple inthe 500lb+ range on mobile bases and they prefer to stayput. The pallet jack is more than a match for such machinesthough, if you can get it under them.

Yeah, one of our worktables we use for welding is 4×8 3/8” plate steel with a tray at the bottom that we put a bunch of tools and supplies on. It has wheels on one side that touch the ground when you put a car jack under the other side. It does not like moving at all. I think it wouldn’t be as much of an issue if the wheels were larger though.

So, when the machinery gets heavy, start using larger casters. You may have to offset them on the side to keep them from making your machinery too tall, but it’s worth it any time you have to move it.

Sorry, didn’t get a picture this weekend. I attended a beerfest and that pretty much relegated the rest of my weekend to recovery.